Yesterday in my interpellation of Ronchi, the Minister for European Affairs, about the responses that the government must provide to the questions that the European Court of Justice has put forward on the issue of Europa7, there was the maximum of evasion. I am attaching the transcript of Minister Ronchi’s reply so that citizens may know that these responses are still not there and that the words of Andrea Ronchi, the employee of Silvio Berlusconi are taking the citizens of Italy for a ride.
Right now we know that the President of the Council has no intention to hand over to their legitimate owner, the frequencies that are occupied by Rete4.
We know even now that the Italians will pay 350 thousand euro a day with backdated application starting from 1 January 2006.

Antonio Di Pietro: We of Italia dei Valori would like to understand how the current government intends respecting the verdict of the European Court of Justice, given that on 31 January 2008, it gave a verdict against the Italian State for not having respected the principle of the free provision of services and no objective, transparent and non-discriminatory criteria in assigning frequencies.
Last week, the European Commission set out a total of 20 specific questions to ask how the government intends putting into effect the verdict of the European Court of Justice.
Given that the Italian Government, in the latest law decree, even though it expressly had the title of executing the verdict and the measures of the European Union, it did not resolve this problem. We want to know, now, in a clear, clear way what you intend to do in relation to the questions put by the European Commission.

Maurizio Lupi: The Minister for European Policies, Andrea Ronchi may respond.

Andrea Ronchi: Mr President, I thank the Honourable Di Pietro for this question needing an immediate response in which he asks the Government to supply elements about the topic of the authorisation to transmit and the assigning of frequencies in digital mode, with particular reference to the issues set out in the European Community on the pre-existing legislation and the measures that have been recently approved.
As a preliminary I would say that since the European Commission sent the questionnaire referred to in the question on 25 June and thus, since replies are being prepared to the questions posed, it is not possible right now to give a definitive response to the specific topics in the questionnaire.
Having said that, it is first necessary to point out that, with an opinion explained on 18 July 2007, the European Commission formulated points of incompatibility with the Community in relation to the aspects relating to the exercise of the activity of operator of a digital network on terrestrial frequencies and to the regime of the transfer of frequency equipment with the aim of creating digital terrestrial networks.
In relation to the first profile, the European Commission has pointed out that the transitory regime of individual licences of the unified text on the radio and TV would be in contrast with the measures in the the authorisation directives, as, according to the framework of the European Community, the right to exercise the activity of operator of networks is the general authorisation and not the individual licence.
The modifications brought in on the initiative of the Minister of Economic Development are exactly appropriate to remove this difficulty as article 8-novies, comma 1, of the law number 101 of 2008 modifies article 15, comma 1 of the unified text on radio and TV, so as to be precise that the activity of operator of a digital network is subject only to the general authorisation regime, that is also in reference to the transition period.